​Everyone's Mad at the Dickies After They Verbally Abused a Warped Tour Attendee

Warped Tour is underway, once again sending a tornado of pop-punk, bad hair dye and Vans whirling across America all summer — but the event took a nasty turn in Denver earlier this week.

Long-running California punk outfit the Dickies engaged in a verbal altercation with a crowd member during their set on Sunday (June 25), using a string of colourful obscenities to berate a woman in the audience.

Phillips, meanwhile, has issued his own response to the backlash. In a Facebook post, he explains that a group of protestors were standing to the side of the stage holding signs that read "Our teenage girls don't need to be subjected to derogatory jokes by a disgusting old man" and "Punk isn't predatory," and he claims that a woman from that group threw one of the signs at him.

He admits that he "finally let my anger get the better of me," and then issues the world's worst apology, stating: "I understand the word 'cunt' is inflammatory and that many women have been abused by this word. I should have called her an 'asshole.'"